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Sorry for the long time between posts - traveled for work and then my oldest graduated from High School this week!

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His Notes:

One of my favourite Irish folk tunes. This improvisation was filmed during our family holiday to a cottage on Shell Island in Wales...

Like peanut butter and chocolate....

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Their Notes: I know nothing about this song and had never heard it before. Lorenzo selected it and we played it. But I think it was a great choice...

Beautiful....

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His Notes: People seemed to like this tree, so I went back and did another recording.

It starts off as a sort of Bonnie and Clyde thing. It then strays into something else that sounds maybe a bit gangsterish. Finally we're back to Bonnie and Cly...

Perfect for the location....

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His Notes: Went to the beach in North Wales last weekend. It was cold - very cold. I managed to play a few bars before my fingers seized up and got tangled in the strings...

I don't know how Leonard feels, but as far as I am concerned, Ken is the official Cohen Uke Cover Man....

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His Notes: The penultimate song from "Dear Heather", Cohen's most recent studio album (2004)...

Another great cover from NAMM....

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His Notes: Another video from the same session at Anaheim during the Winter NAMM. This time John Moen is singing. Matt, Aldrine and I are accompanying...

Just a little motel magic....

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His Notes: Aldrine, Matt, John and I doing a completely unrehearsed performance of John Denver's "Annie's Song". We were all attending the Winter NAMM Show in California last week...

A UkeToob favorite playing his favorite, Leonard Cohen....

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His Notes: Taken from Cohen's amazing "Various Positions" album of 1985.

I recorded this before, early in 2008. I have two broken finger nails so I needed to do something that could be strummed. I chos...

One of the hymns from Ken's new book....

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His Notes: One of my favourite Christmas carols. I am aware that there are other tunes that fit with these words. This is the melody that is best-known in the UK...

Now this gets me in the mood for Christmas....

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His Notes: I wanted to record something by the fire. Just a bit of noodling around.

It is incredibly cold in England at the moment, that's why I had a open fire. And yes, I do live in a museum...